1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher

School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher

Location:
Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 327

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 327

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher
  2. XML Page 327
  3. XML “Potato Crop”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Potato Crop (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    are made locally by James Awlward the jink they call him. All the spuds are cut in two before being sown, and a foot must be between every one of them.
    The people nowadays do not assist each other in sowing the spuds. When the potatoes are peeping over the ground the farmer has to put clay to them that is called moulding them. When the spuds begin to get big the farmer has to spray them for fear of the blight. First of all the farmer digs the first drills of spuds with a spade then he ploughs them out of the ground.
    Some people hire men to pick the spuds. This is how it is done. The farmer has to get a bucket and has to pick them into the bucket, and put them in the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Rafter
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Catstown, Co. Kilkenny